TAIERI COUNTY COUNCIL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16782, 25 August 1916, Page 7

TAIERI COUNTY COUNCIL

The following report by the engineer (Mr B. 11 Couston) will bo presumed to tho Taieri County Council to day: — Tie metal del. very eontr?.cta in Iva-ikorai and (Strath 'liiiorj Fadings are completed 'J'he roads veto too soft to pennjt of tho g-ravel contracts being proceeded with. The grader farns have worked in Ontram and Maungatoa Ridings removing tho high sides from metal and gravol formations. The weather <11111113- tha month has been bad, and there ii coii'j'qiiMitly no pro<jre=sivo day labour •401k id report. Tho ssiriacamen have bp on fully unployed letting oSz ivatcr from roads *thl clearing slips. The quarry squad have worker! at Mopgiel Quarry, the output for tho month irf*\ug 377 yjrds delivered and yard? run to t>u? tv-ip. The surfacemen worn emjf'oyod twi days in eacil riding laying bird "po.jvm. 'i'he : "pints "ven> generally icimd, psracrdariy 90 vrfcein the poison was bid after a fall of sn 'i 1-e land purfrom Mrjas Mui-iay. Roberts, and Co for U)o Sutton to 3't'itame load has Wn srrveyed, ajjd the pbn haridrd to tho a,'M\n solicitor «i h instructions to prepare r. tnn.-, f cr. TJi- boundaries of Mason's Stmnh Tiieri, hive also been defined, jl 1' a pi. 'in The crer ks have bet*; too high *.0 pnrmn, the culverts being inserted. ihere ire {wo .lpj-'ications from tho Ciiv Corporation for extension of linos. oii3 is far ."-aitension of tho pole line from ilu> rrovbig at North Taieri station alone; Uie School lrfhd for abot't threp-quaiteis of a. milo, thrice sctov Mr Hazlett's paddocks to hu luxise on Muir's load, the line bung carried underground acioss Mini's road, as at Boyd's Crossing. The other application w to extend the hitch tension line f>om Gicon's corner -up to the Wb.ue Flf'it road to a point .1 few hundred yards above tho Mosgicl waterworks intake. Mr F. Wroublo makes application to sir dare a hut 20ft bv 10ft from Loo Creek tj Allan lon. I do not think this cm b« done withoit damage to the road s , and recommend that die request bo declined